If an algorithm can construct a narrative, what is the role for a museum or gallery?
Chicago-based company Narrative Science began as a research project at Northwestern University bringing together computer science and journalism students with professors in the Intelligent Information Laboratory. They created a piece of software called StatsMonkey, which automatically generated stories of little league baseball games by turning statistical data into narratives. The company would source statistics and data about who hit what, and what the scores were and so on, and then the computer would use that information to write stories about the games. In other words, Narrative Science found a method for automatically turning structured data into human-readable narratives.
